RMC Regional Market Coordination Regional Coordination CWE Capacity

RMC Regional. Market Coordination Regional Coordination CWE Capacity Allocation Service Company CASC Presentation of the project to CSE IG Milano, 3 June 2008

Disclaimer Some elements of the following presentation are extracted from documents approved by the 7 TSOs of CWE. However, this presentation is made in the name of RTE only, and does not commit the other TSOs of CWE. Furthermore, the following presentation is not a CWE project working paper, and presents only some facts and opinions on the CWE project.

Background l Central West Region: France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany (part of UCTE-block – Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Electricity) è Pentalateral Memorandum of Understanding (June 2007) Ø Signed by TSOs, Regulators, Power Exchanges, Market Parties Platform and Governments Ø FBMC Ø Security of Supply Ø Harmonization of LT explicit auctions è Regional Action Plan by regulators of CWE (February 2007)

CASC - CWE C apacity A llocation S ervice C ompany C entral W est E urope

Structure l CASC is a service provider for the TSOs l One common organisation set up by the TSO’s of the CWE market area to facilitate cross border power markets l 7 shareholders l Luxembourg SA, located in Luxembourg city l Possibility for other TSO’s to join the company in order to increase the working area

CASC – Scope and Tasks l Long Term explicit auctions: Regional auction office for long-term (yearly) and mid-term (monthly) coordinated explicit auctions in the CWE Region, from Q 4 2008 on for 2009, including capacity publications l Secondary Markets for Transmission Rights: Platform for secondary trading markets for transmission rights l Collection and distribution of CWE congestion income (from the auctions and FBMC) l Envisaged for the future Ø Day Ahead Market Coupling: Interface between TSOs and Power Exchanges, in a form that has to be agreed between the TSOs and the Power Exchanges of the CWE Region Ø Facilitation of Intraday cross-border trade

Advantages for market participants l Access to all CWE markets via one portal ØOne stop shopping l All relevant information regarding the CWE-market via one website ØAll information regarding the availability of capacity on one screen l No (legal / functional / technical) differences anymore ØEqual rules on all borders connecting the 5 countries ØOne IT system ØOne system of clearing and settlement l User friendliness, availability, and security will be as high as possible

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Present situation in CWE region for long term explicit auctions l Three existing sets of explicit auction rules: TSO Auction Ø TSO Auction Office Ø RTE/RWE/En. BW Ø Elia/RTE l Three existing auction IT systems: Elia/RTE RTE/RWE /En. BW Ø TSO Auction Office Ø Ariba Ø RWE

Envisaged future situation for long term explicit auctions E Single set of explicit auction rules CASC E Single explicit auction IT system CWE Marketers will benefit from: E One-stop-shop E Harmonised products

CASC TSO Auction Elia/RTE CWE RTE/RWE /En. BW

* If Daily auction is the fallback for FBMC CASC – Daily Operations CASC Contracts and Customer database Bids Results Notifications Custome rs LT and Daily* Auctions Tool ATC TSO’s Reporting ACK Secondary Market % reduction Capacity Curtailment % reduction AAC Calculation AAC Invoices Monitoring Web publication Settlement Payment Web TSO s